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Adam Liptak, in his New York Times column, writes about the state of civil liberties, ten years after September 11, while William Saletan at Slate discusses how much has changed in the way we wage war since 9/11. He also points to a recent announcement by Pakistan that it has captured several high-ranking al Qaeda operatives, including Younis Al Mauritani, who was, according to the Pakistani government,
tasked personally by Osama Bin Ladan to focus on hitting targets of economical importance in United States of America, Europe and Australia. He was planning to target United States economic interests including gas/oil pipelines, power generating dams and strike ships/oil tankers through explosive laden speed boats in International waters.Lisa Hajjar at Al Jazeera writes the first of a five-part series on the state of U.S. detention policy since 9/11. She's currently writing a book about "anti-torture lawyering in the U.S." The first essay is entitled "US detention post-9/11: Birth of a debacle ." Media in Afghanistan are noting with interest a recent trend of public and evidence-based trials of criminals in the country's eastern province of Nangarhar, a trend made possible in part by NATO's new Rule of Law Field Support Mission. The Air Force is apparently in the business of buying used civilian planes, as this New York Times story by Christopher Dew tells us. While we used to supplement manned air power with drones, Apparently, the Air Force is "now easing the load on the unmanned drones" with planes flown by actual humans. NPR's Rachel Martin acknowledges that the U.S. military's use of drones to target terrorists in Pakistan is the worst kept secret in defense policy. Drones, meet computer hackers. MIT Technology Review's Robert Lemos writes about an up-and-coming technology on display at the Black Hat Security Briefings conference in August. It uses drones to compromise wireless networks: "In two separate presentations last month, researchers showed off remote-controlled aerial vehicles loaded with technology designed to automatically detect and compromise wireless networks. The projects demonstrated that such drones could be used to create an airborne botnet controller for a few hundred dollars." Great. According to an AP poll, a slim majority of Americans support full-body scans at the airport, but less than a third feel want their phone calls and emails read in the name of national security. Politico has the poll results. As he retires from government service, Robert Gates will return to his alma mater, William & Mary, to be the next chancellor. Jason Ukman at the Post shares the announcement. Dick Cheney will be speaking at the American Enterprise Institute this Friday to discuss lessons learned since 9/11. I'm not laying bets that he's going to offer a mea culpa for Lawfare's project. Follow us on Twitter for interesting law and security-related articles, and email me interesting articles that I may have missed at wakeman.lawfare@gmail.com.
Raffaela Wakeman is a Senior Director at In-Q-Tel. She started her career at the Brookings Institution, where she spent five years conducting research on national security, election reform, and Congress. During this time she was also the Associate Editor of Lawfare. From there, Raffaela practiced law at the U.S. Department of Defense for four years, advising her clients on privacy and surveillance law, cybersecurity, and foreign liaison relationships. She departed DoD in 2019 to join the Majority Staff of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, where she oversaw the Intelligence Community’s science and technology portfolios, cybersecurity, and surveillance activities. She left HPSCI in May 2021 to join IQT.
Raffaela received her BS and MS in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009 and her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 2015, where she was recognized for her commitment to public service with the Joyce Chiang Memorial Award. While at the Department of Defense, she was the inaugural recipient of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s General Counsel Award for exhibiting the highest standards of leadership, professional conduct, and integrity.
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